I think that Nora Ephron is marvellous. Even if you would rather stick hot pins in your eyes than watch 'When Harry Met Sally' ever again (me), or 'Sleepless in Seattle' more often than once every decade (me), or 'You've Got Mail' unless profoundly ill or depressed and separated from usual critical faculties (this has happened to me) - she is still marvellous. And I'll tell you why.
She wrote 'Silkwood'.
She wrote 'Heartburn'.
(That would - should - be enough for anybody, frankly, but there's more)
She made Julie & Julia which is very sweet but which also had Meryl Streep, Stanley ('Call me Stan') Tucci AND Chris Messina all in one film.
She is friends with Meryl Streep.
She is a natty deliverer of bon mots and a habitual wearer of chic all-black outfits.
She is capable of writing lines so funny and perfectly pitched that I snort in public.
She is friends with Meryl Streep.
She clearly goes to all the best parties in NYC and I bet she's a great guest.
She loves food and cooking.
She uses a Mac.
She has said that the hardest thing about writing is writing - but also that it's the best job in the world.
She is friends with Meryl Streep.
I would like to meet Nora Ephron only marginally less than I would like to meet Alan Bennett. And I don't mean to shake hands. I want dinner and then one more for the road.
Nora Ephron is marvellous. I want to be her when I grow up.
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can you believe i have never seen silkwood or heartburn? do they involve jack nicolson? he puts me off stuff.
ReplyDeleteyou will be nora ephron, without the meg ryan mistakes.